Best Quick and Easy Games for your Android Phone

Looking for a fast fix with your Android games for your phone? Look no further

Playing games while on the move can be tricky. You're dealing with the relatively small screen of a smartphone and short amounts of free time. Meanwhile many games focus on longer play sessions and small, detailed controls. For tablet play that's fine, but we're rounding up bite-sized, finger-friendly fun available on Android that's best suited for smartphones.

Super Hexagon

Super Hexagon is an actiongame where players dive through a maze of walls that are continually spinning and fallinginwards. A constant, disorienting motion makes accomplishing this insanely difficult, and an amazing soundtrack doesn't help the nerves either. As you beat each stage, a harder version of the level is unlocked. Before long, things get well and truly ridicadonk.

Dumb Ways to Die

Players in Dumb Ways to Die have to survive a barrage of deadly mini-games which get harder as time goes on. These include swatting away deadly wasps, shooing piranhas away from your crotch, and holding onto balloons so you don't dive onto the tracks. Three adorable animated deaths and it's game over. As you progress, your collection of dancing cartoon corpses grows.

All in all, Dumb Ways to Die is a fantastically morbid test of reflexes.

Despicable Me: Minion Rush

Despicable Me: Minion Rush is an endless runner featuring the adorable little creatures from the popular animated film. Players have to swipe left and right to avoid incoming obstacles and collect bananas and power-ups. Camera angles and control types change regularly, demanding players stay on their toes, and with lots of unlockable content, including costumes and new running areas, the game stays fresh for a long time.

Despicable Me: Minion Rush is hugely entertaining and a great way to kill a few minutes.

Dots

Dots is an easygoing puzzle title that involves lining up identically-colored dots as quickly as possible. Gather up dots by drawing a line through them, and get bonuses for creating closed loops. At the end of a round, either by time or number of moves, the gathered dots can be spent on power-ups to help in future matches. Pass-and-play multiplayer is also available, if you want to see how you stack up against your buddies.

Canabalt

Canabalt is a fast and furious endless runner with a minimalist art style. All you have to do is tap the screen anywhere to jump gaps between the buildings you're running over. There are a lot of other one-touch endless runners on Android, but Canabalt excels for its high speed, fluid animation, and short play cycle. You won't find any in-app purchases, power-ups, or anything like that here; the only challenge is to make it farther than your last run before faceplanting into another skyscraper.

Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja is a hugely popular action game. Players make quick swipes to slice fruit tossed in the air before it hits the ground, but be sure not to hit the bombs. Though it's an older game, the developer has been updating regularly with new content. There's a premium currency, starfruit, that players earn through gameplay which is used to buy these bomb deflectors, bonus fruit, and new blades.

Fruit Ninja has weathered the test of time and remains accessible and fun.

Flick Soccer

For a casual futbol game, Flick Soccer is great. It presents a variety of kicking games where players have to race against the clock, hit targets, and otherwise score some goals. The swipe recognition is highly polished and results in some very natural-feeling arcs. Even after the kick has landed, you can alter the trajectory with a quick swipe.

Tetris Blitz

Tetris Blitz is a reimagining of the classic block-dropping puzzle. Random blocks spawn at the top of the screen, and you have to tap a location to drop them so a solid row of blocks is formed. That row disappears, and you get points; the more rows you take out at once, the more points you get. The catch is that you only have two minutes to score as many points as possible. They've also tossed in power-ups which help you along the way, and a Frenzy meter which fills up as you score points and ultimately initiates a massive spout of points bonuses.

Major Mayhem

Major Mayhem is side-scrolling shooter with dirt-simple controls. Players tap on secret agents and ninjas as they pop out from behind cover to open fire. Save scientists from the evil clutches of ne'er-do-wells, earn coins, and unlock new weapons and outfits.

Beach Buggy Blitz

In Beach Buggy Blitz players drive along the beach for as long as possible. There are plenty of obstacles along the way that slow you down if you hit them, and if you can't make the next checkpoint before the clock runs out, it's back to the starting line. Coins are scattered along the route which fund upgrades like new rides and power-ups. Dust, water, and lighting effects are all hugely impressive, and add up to a surprisingly rich experience.

Though Beach Buggy Blitz is kid-friendly, it's a ton of fun for everybody

I was considering including asynchronous games like Hero Academy and Scrabble since it doesn't take long to submit a turn. I think the biggest problem is that there's never a guarantee that you'll have a turn to make at any given time, and you gotta be able to play at any time for this list. I suppose if you queue up enough matches, it becomes less of an issue. How many games do you usually have running at once?

No shame, I've been putting time into it too, just to see how bad things scale later on. Honestly, it's no worse than Clash of Clans as far as balance goes, and the graphics are way better. They almost got me with an IAP when they offered a free imp with the first gem purchase. Then I saw that the minimum gem pack was five bucks. :/

I'm enjoying Dungeon Keeper too. I've seen everything bashing the game, but ultimately I still have fun playing it. So I don't care about the soul-less aspect. I'm also addicted to Clash, but Keeper has more options in setting up a defense than Clash.

Pixel Dungeon is a great roguelike designed for mobile from the ground up. Free, no IAPs and gets content updates occasionally that keep it exciting. It's also currently an Android exclusive, which makes a change!

best games for android.
scumm emulator and lucasarts games upto grim fandango.
if i start playing at train stations,i always get at least one person ask and sometimes a small crowd will want to know what i am playing,thhey still look very good,just on screen control can be tricky,started using from my sony/ericsson p800 onwards through most of my devices.
they are small(ish) and easy to run.,and you can get them all onto one msd card.
hardest part is getting hold of the original games files,luckely i had kept all my pc discs from donkeys years ago cos some are quite hard to source now.not realy "andriod" games,just fun games on any platform.
andcthey should make some more new ones.

Just downloaded three games i never heard of. none of them on the list. thanx AC commentors! no shade to the article just played those all.

surprised beach buggy is still on the list. say i suck if you want but i cant get very far in that game and its kinda lame if you dont get to see the other scenery. which is why i loved despicable me cuz you can start different places

I mostly agree with these choices, but Beachbugy Blitz is anything but quick once you get good and have upgraded your car. A single run easily lasts me a half hour. I still think its the best Android game ever though.

That's a cool list of the android applications, I have played the game named as Tetris Blitz and enjoyed playing it. <a href="http://www.utradestudios.com/feed-your-bird/"> The game is full of challenges and player can complete it using skills</a>. This is a great opportunity for kids to polish their logic and physical skills. Thanks for sharing some really great apps here.

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